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1 " When cops are on the job they love lawyers like lions love hyenas, only minus the mutual respect. "
― Reed Farrel Coleman , The James Deans (Moe Prager, #3)
2 " In a country that values the ballroom dancing talents of washed-up actors, writers were less than afterthoughts. "
― Reed Farrel Coleman , Gun Church
3 " I achieved what all artists dread: I had outlived most of my money and all of my talent. "
4 " I'd burned bridges between us that had yet to be built. "
5 " The first snort of coke, the first taste of a woman, the first sip of scotch: every high is different, but somehow the same. "
6 " When you feel the stitches holding the illusion of yourself together begin to stretch and pop, and you can't sew fast enough to keep the stuffing in. "
7 " His ears were so littered with studs, safety pins and dangling razor blades that if he were to stand between two strong magnets his face would peel off. "
― Reed Farrel Coleman , Walking the Perfect Square (Moe Prager #1)
8 " I’ve never let myself get scared off anything in my life and I wasn’t gonna start now. You back down once, there’s no telling when it’ll stop. You let yourself get scared and it never goes away. It fucks up your judgments. "
― Reed Farrel Coleman , Hurt Machine (Moe Prager, #7)
9 " This is publishing, Kip! Since when does logic have anything to do with it? "
10 " Readers have some peculiar notions about the status of writers, the most foolish of which is that writers are treated like royalty by their publishers. "
11 " Publishing makes Oedipus Rex look like a play about distant cousins. "
12 " You can feel yourself falling in love, not out of it. "
13 " serendipity, "
14 " I’m not sure letting people at their money all the time is such a great idea. Even level-headed people make some pretty stupid decisions with a bellyful at three in the morning. I don’t think adding ready cash to the equation is bound to help. "
15 " baseball players. Football, maybe. Not baseball, not built the way they were: thick "
― Reed Farrel Coleman , Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot (Jesse Stone, #13)
16 " Closure is overrated. Closure doesn't exist. "
17 " The problem with life was that even if you didn't go looking for trouble, trouble sometimes came looking for you. "
18 " There is always a cause, but not always a because. And even when there is, the dead are beyond its reach or caring. "
― Reed Farrel Coleman , Where It Hurts (Gus Murphy, #1)
19 " There was no deeper truth in the mundanity of violence. That truth sat on the surface and required no mining at all. "
20 " Maybe someday there will be a more gender-neutral orientation in our society, but as it stands today, almost every societal institution positively reinforces the heterosexual model while either ignoring altogether or actively condemning the homosexual one. Everyone from your mom and dad to your clergyman to your teacher to your friends work, either consciously or unconsciously, to protect and reinforce societal norms. There’s nothing sinister or overtly conspiratorial about it. It’s how societies function. Has anyone in your family married outside of his or her race or religion?” I said: “My cousin Arty wound up marrying a Puerto Rican woman from the Bronx who refused to convert.” “And what was your family’s reaction, Mr. Prager?” “My aunt and uncle sat shiva. They treated his marriage like a death in the family. He was dead to them. "
